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Malcolm Jolley

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2010 Malivoire Gamay $17.95 at LCBO Vintages stores or Malivoire.com The point of boeuf Bourguignon is, of course, the Bourguignon wine. Otherwise it’s just beef stew. Braising meat in red wine is a classic preparation, and there’s no reason why we can’t adopt the practice to our own terroir. In fact, Ontario wines in large […]

Carrots Available at grocery stores near you $1.99/bunch (or thereabouts) One of my favourite things is the email newsletter I receive from farmer David Cohlmeyer at Cookstown Greens. This week, he actually complained that the first frost in the Holland Marsh had been late this year, delaying the “hardening off” of his root vegetables and […]

Fresh-picked Ontario Brussels Sprouts The Harvest Wagon, 1103 Yonge St., 416-923-7542 $3.99/lb I had lunch cooked for me this week by Michael Stadtlander and his Eigensinn farm crew over an open fire on the site of Foodstock, the Oct. 16 local food and music festival to be held near Shelburne in opposition to a proposed […]

Growing up in the 1970s, corn was king. Driving up to the family cottage in the Kawarthas meant zig-zagging east-north-east-north on back country roads, and watching the progress of the stalks of corn until the magical moment when the Flynn’s Corners gas station, run by the Flynn family, between Bobcaygeon and Buckhorn, had a stack […]

Perth County Tamshire Bacon Olliffe, 1097 Yonge St., 416-928-0296 $14/lb They say bacon has been the ruin of more than one vegetarian career. It certainly is hard to find anyone (restrictive diets, notwithstanding) who doesn’t like it just a little bit. But cooking it properly in a pan is a drag. There’s the old warning […]

Rolling Hills Organic Mixed Greens $4 or $7 per bag, Riverdale Farmers’ Market, 201 Winchester St., 416-961-8787 Right now, Ontario’s farmers’ markets are full of fresh salad greens and lovely, fragrant green garlic, which is mild enough to be eaten raw. Salad greens bought the morning they are picked will last in the fridge days […]

Gingerich Organic Eggs Olliffe, 1097 Yonge St., 416-928-0296, $7.50/dozen I am not much of a gardener. As much as I enjoy the fruits of farmers’ labours, I don’t have much of an appetite for the work, and on a warm spring day, I am more likely to be found mixing drinks than topsoils. But, whatever […]

Canadian Grade “A” Frozen Wild Blueberries Approximately $4.99 per 600g bag, major grocery stores January is the worst month to file as a food writer: After the holidays, everyone is broke and on a diet. So in fraternity with all the personal trainers and dietitians, who are likely enjoying their best time of the year, […]

Holiday heroes on a half shell! Whole Foods Market 87 Avenue Rd., 416-944-0500 $1 each Toronto is a pretty good oyster town with three famous oyster bars (all of which cater): Rodney’s, Starfish and Oyster Boy. At this time of year, the delicacy is also readily available at fishmongers and even fancier grocery stores and […]

Organic Bok Choy Whole Foods Market 87 Avenue Rd., 416-944-0500 $4.99/lb The sign on the shelf says they’re “baby bok choy,” but the ones at Whole Foods on Avenue Road are bigger than most of the bok choy I’ve seen around town. Sometimes their bok choy (which is simply marked “PRODUCT OF USA”) comes in […]